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There was this platformer, it would have been in the 90's, for PC. It was about this kid who was terrified of everything, and you had to go through the levels to find these shadows, but it would turn out that they weren't things to be terrified of, just people from the character's life. I remember my cousin also told me about this cartoon she saw that had the same name as it, which the game was probably based off of. The kid also used a yo-yo to attack. Any help?
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Trying to remember this one edutainment title for classic mac os that was CD-Rom based, it involved being abducted by aliens? You had to complete little science activities in a prerendered 3D spaceship; the aliens you were abducted by threatened to scramble your brains if you didn't which I vividly remember being absolutely terrifying because they too were rendered in early 90s CG and uncanny as all hell. I remember it being packed on a demo disc of some kind and only two of the experiments were available? And some door that you walked through that was made of fluid? It might have been on one of the club kidsoft CDs?
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Aug 3, 2011 01:47
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Arrhythmia posted:There was this platformer, it would have been in the 90's, for PC. It was about this kid who was terrified of everything, and you had to go through the levels to find these shadows, but it would turn out that they weren't things to be terrified of, just people from the character's life. I remember my cousin also told me about this cartoon she saw that had the same name as it, which the game was probably based off of. The kid also used a yo-yo to attack. Nightmare Ned, or maybe one of the Pajama Sam games?
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Aug 3, 2011 03:27
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I remember a game, vaguely. (Of course, considering the thread.  ) It was an adventure game of some kind. The main character, I think, was a young woman, and could ride on a dragon. It was for the PC and I played it like 8 years ago or so. There was a big valley with a mountain range around it in what I was playing (The demo) and caves with orcs and other such monsters in them which you could fight off with a sword.Any ideas?
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Aug 3, 2011 03:46
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Anatharon posted:I remember a game, vaguely. (Of course, considering the thread.
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Aug 3, 2011 04:01
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I pretty much know exactly what this game is, but I can't identify the title, no matter how hard I look. It was an Amiga game, probably C64 too. You might recognize the art style as being very similar to North & South, as I believe it was based on a Belgian comic by the same guy. The whole thing was some sort of mini-game collection set inside a 19th century prison, with guys in striped uniforms and everything. I remember you had to peel potatoes in one of the mini-games, and I seem to recall there being one where you had to escape using a trampoline as well.
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Aug 3, 2011 08:35
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Hakkesshu posted:I pretty much know exactly what this game is, but I can't identify the title, no matter how hard I look. Is it Bobo?   On the C64 it seems to be called "Stir Crazy featuring Bobo". Snackmar fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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Aug 3, 2011 08:46
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Yeah, that's exactly it. Thanks a lot. What a weird name.
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Aug 3, 2011 09:15
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MMAgCh posted:Sounds like one of the Drakan games. Definitely Drakan, god I loved that game. I think I'll go track down my disc again. Shame the PS2 one's so hard to find, only ever played an hour or two's worth.
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Aug 3, 2011 09:18
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So there's this NES game with, I want to say, monster trucks or at least some sort of big trucks you race. It's a sort of overhead view, and you race towards the top of the screen. The trucks had heavy customization in terms of their internal mechanisms and stuff, you could buy different engines and brakes and things like that, with money you won from races. The tracks had a lot of mud and puddles and stuff you could splash through which slowed you down. The graphics weren't cartoony or anime-styled, but obviously NES games can't look too realistic. The part I'm not sure if I remember or if I'm imagining it is that it had split-screen racing for two players, which still had the customization aspects going for it. I have no idea what it was called.
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Aug 3, 2011 10:59
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R.C. Pro-Am 2 maybe? Though you don't only race towards the top of the screen in that, it's got pretty much everything else you described.
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Aug 3, 2011 11:20
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Kelp Plankton posted:So there's this NES game with, I want to say, monster trucks or at least some sort of big trucks you race. It's a sort of overhead view, and you race towards the top of the screen. The trucks had heavy customization in terms of their internal mechanisms and stuff, you could buy different engines and brakes and things like that, with money you won from races. The tracks had a lot of mud and puddles and stuff you could splash through which slowed you down. The graphics weren't cartoony or anime-styled, but obviously NES games can't look too realistic. Edit: Look at how loving awesome I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQONaxlYwk duckfarts fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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Aug 3, 2011 12:50
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Is this one dead then? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2855926&pagenumber=72#lastpost edit: Oh I see, there's just two for some reason.
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Aug 3, 2011 13:01
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Kelp Plankton posted:I have no idea what it was called. Sort of sounds like Super Off-Road. There wasn't split-screen (the race was all on one screen) but there is side-by-side vehicle customization with the cash you win, and there's water and dirt and crap on the track, but you don't race toward the top of the screen. Edit: Dammit, Bigfoot is probably it, but Super Off-Road was a much better game
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Aug 3, 2011 21:05
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ponzicar posted:Nightmare Ned, or maybe one of the Pajama Sam games? Hot-drat that's it! Thanks a lot! It's Nightmare Ned, but I also played Pajama Sam a lot and completely forgot about it. Thanks!
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Aug 3, 2011 21:14
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Okay, been looking for a number of older games I played when I was a youngun. This first one will probably be the hardest to identify. I would have played this in the early-to-mid nineties. I believe it was a DOS game with a platforming element. All I remember is playing as an explorer/adventurer seeking out treasure or items. I recall there being ladders connecting the platforms, and there was some sort of enemy threat which may or may not have included yetis, penguins, and/or birds. I don't know if you could attack them. It may have been called "Himalaya" or "Avalanche" or something to that effect. The next three were all Commodore 64 games (cartridges?) that I owned about fifteen years ago, but have long since been sold. The first game was one where you played as a (red?) car in a 3/4 top-down view. I remember driving along, avoiding other cars and obstacles, and that you could jump. I think there was something that could make you go in reverse, too. Maybe it was called "Bump and Go" or something along those lines? The next one was some sort of Chu Chu rocket precursor where you played as a (blue?) mouse running around a maze, collecting cheese, and avoiding (red?) cats. The last one was a sort of roguelike or dungeoncrawl that was much too difficult for a ten-year-old kid to be playing. I think I recall that most elements were white on a black background, and some of the starting enemies were snakes. The reason it was so hard was that I'd always move further into the dungeon or down a floor and get insta-killed by a snake enemy that was identified as a "Black Mamba." It moved across the screen extremely quickly, much faster than the wimpy enemies that you were supposed to kill. I think there was probably a text box that displayed messages, which always ended with me being brutally murdered.
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duckfarts posted:Bigfoot? Unless there's another game incredibly similar to this, I'm pretty sure this is it. I had no idea it was a licenced game! Just knew it was monster trucks. Thanks! Okay, let's try another one: I think it might be kind of an edutainment game but I'm not sure. It was a PC title, an adventure game sort of thing, which I remember was very stylized, and primarily the color yellow, but not really primitive graphics. It used black and white photos for the backgrounds, and had stylized animated characters doing stuff. A brother and sister I think. The plot might have had something to do with bees, and I remember there was some sort of large machinery involved and some sense of danger to what was going on(though i was in like 3rd grade so i could be wrong). There was also like a 'scene menu' you could use to jump around the game, if I remember right. I think there was more than one title in the 'series' but I could be wrong and maybe it was just different parts of the game I was seeing. I only ever played it at my friend's house, so I'm not sure. This was the mid/late 90s to early 2000s-ish. I wish I could pin down a better timeframe. Sea Lily fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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Hottentot Apron posted:The next one was some sort of Chu Chu rocket precursor where you played as a (blue?) mouse running around a maze, collecting cheese, and avoiding (red?) cats.
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Hottentot Apron posted:Okay, been looking for a number of older games I played when I was a youngun. This first one will probably be the hardest to identify. I would have played this in the early-to-mid nineties. I believe it was a DOS game with a platforming element. All I remember is playing as an explorer/adventurer seeking out treasure or items. I recall there being ladders connecting the platforms, and there was some sort of enemy threat which may or may not have included yetis, penguins, and/or birds. I don't know if you could attack them. It may have been called "Himalaya" or "Avalanche" or something to that effect. I think the first C64 game you're thinking of is something called "Up 'n Down": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LAg57BS__4 The Entity fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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Aug 5, 2011 01:34
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Hottentot Apron posted:Okay, been looking for a number of older games I played when I was a youngun. This first one will probably be the hardest to identify. I would have played this in the early-to-mid nineties. I believe it was a DOS game with a platforming element. All I remember is playing as an explorer/adventurer seeking out treasure or items. I recall there being ladders connecting the platforms, and there was some sort of enemy threat which may or may not have included yetis, penguins, and/or birds. I don't know if you could attack them. It may have been called "Himalaya" or "Avalanche" or something to that effect. Possibly Arctic Adventure, the sequel to Pharaoh's Tomb. Both of which are freeware now and you can get here!
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The Entity posted:I think the first C64 game you're thinking of is something called "Up 'n Down": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LAg57BS__4 It's either that or Burnin' Rubber
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Aug 5, 2011 07:12
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Please, help me. I have been haunted by vague blocky images from this game I played probably around 98, for at least 4 months now. Your character is this guy who shoots lasers and you can get power-ups and I know one was a beam, one was like rapid fire another bounced off walls or split into multiple directions, I think. The game had something like carnival in its name. Your character was in a tournament or something. The enemies were either demons or aliens. I know for sure one boss was a huge green blob that may have had spikes and a huge mouth of sharp teeth. His name was Horace or Henry or Harold. It began with an H. And when the battle started, he'd roar: I will crush you!!! Please help. Much thanks in advance. Edit: It might help if I mentioned this was a cheap, free PC game. PriNcessofDarXness fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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Aug 5, 2011 07:54
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There's this PC game that I played back in 2000-2001 that my friend let me borrow. And of course I can't remember the name of it. So here are the details: -game was a biological horror story in the same vein as Resident Evil. -it was set in modern times, I think in an abandoned european city. (filled with monsters, of course) -main characters were three soldier/commando type dudes were we sent to said european city for some reason. The leader was american, one of the other soldier dudes was eastern european with a bad accent. Can't remember any details about the other. -gameplay was similar to japanese rpg's like Final Fantasy. You would explore the world and such until you encountered monsters, and then the game would switch to combat mode. -combat mode was turn-based strategy. You'd move your characters on a square-grid map and position them to attack enemies. -One unusual feature was how guns worked: they could only hit targets in a specific path. The pistol could only fire in four directions, the rile could do eight. This meant that an enemy could literely stand right next to you.. but you couldn't shoot it because I wasn't standing on a square that's in the direction your gun could aim. -There were various weapons you could use like a pistol, assault rifle, flamethrower, melee weapons, etc. Ammo was scarce so you would by relying on melee weapons alot. Some weapons like the flamethrower had unlimited ammo but could only fire once every few turns. -Along the way you picked up another character, a female scientist or something. She dies shortly after getting attacked by a monster that could cloak itself. Any takers? itrorev fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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Aug 5, 2011 08:44
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I've been trying for years to find the name of this game. It's an old PC game (or possibly a C64 one.) It was a platformer involving a worker climbing ladders and crossing girders to get to the top of a construction site. I think you had to dodge bricks and flowerpots. I remember it being very bright, with a lot of yellow, and decent graphics -- it wasn't a stick man or anything like that. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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I'm remembering a PC game I bought several years ago, It was a top-down shoot 'em up set in space, where some kind of science experiment had gone wrong and warped you into a weird universe. You piloted a ship (of which you had a couple) away from a larger space-station thing and blew up asteroids to harvest their precious, precious internal minerals. The ships could be upgraded and have new weapons/tools/etc researched, as could the station to a limited extent. there were several "levels" consisting of many smaller areas, and the end of each area was a bossfight, typical shmup stuff. My brain is telling me this game was called "stardock" but that's the name of two companies ( Edit: STARSCAPE. I found it. decent game, kinda hard at times though. teamdest fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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itrorev posted:There's this PC game that I played back in 2000-2001 that my friend let me borrow. And of course I can't remember the name of it. So here are the details: Gorky 17? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJL5Wx--d-Q
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Aug 5, 2011 08:57
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teamdest posted:I'm remembering a PC game I bought several years ago, It was a top-down shoot 'em up set in space... You're thinking about Starscape. Edit: Welp.
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Mehuyael posted:You're thinking about Starscape. Thank you nonetheless, it was driving me completely batty.
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itrorev posted:There's this PC game that I played back in 2000-2001 that my friend let me borrow. And of course I can't remember the name of it. So here are the details: To echo the other guy, that is definitely Gorky 17, now available on GoG.com
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Aug 5, 2011 10:12
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^^^^ Yep that's it!! THanks guys!
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MMAgCh posted:Radar Rat Race The Entity posted:"Up 'n Down" Discount Viscount posted:Arctic Adventure YES. You guys are awesome. These are all absolutely what I was looking for. Now if someone can remember that last C64 title, I can hit ebay and die a happy man.
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Aug 5, 2011 17:54
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Some game I remember hearing about a while ago. It was basically Hogwarts: The Game where you are in a magical academy, have to study for tests, do wizard poo poo, etc. Was for PC, may have been online. Definitely required moneys.
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Morpheus posted:Some game I remember hearing about a while ago. It was basically Hogwarts: The Game where you are in a magical academy, have to study for tests, do wizard poo poo, etc. Was for PC, may have been online. Definitely required moneys.
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Aug 5, 2011 18:34
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Hottentot Apron posted:The last one was a sort of roguelike or dungeoncrawl that was much too difficult for a ten-year-old kid to be playing. I think I recall that most elements were white on a black background, and some of the starting enemies were snakes. The reason it was so hard was that I'd always move further into the dungeon or down a floor and get insta-killed by a snake enemy that was identified as a "Black Mamba." It moved across the screen extremely quickly, much faster than the wimpy enemies that you were supposed to kill. I think there was probably a text box that displayed messages, which always ended with me being brutally murdered. Sounds like one of the Temple of Apshai games.
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MMAgCh posted:This might be Academagia, although I could swear there was another game very much like it. It is eluding my efforts to track it down, however. That is definitely the one I was thinking of, thanks!
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PrincessofDarkness posted:Please, help me. I have been haunted by vague blocky images from this game I played probably around 98, for at least 4 months now. Your character is this guy who shoots lasers and you can get power-ups and I know one was a beam, one was like rapid fire another bounced off walls or split into multiple directions, I think. The game had something like carnival in its name. Your character was in a tournament or something. The enemies were either demons or aliens. I know for sure one boss was a huge green blob that may have had spikes and a huge mouth of sharp teeth. His name was Horace or Henry or Harold. It began with an H. And when the battle started, he'd roar: I will crush you!!! Please help. Much thanks in advance.
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I have three, all of them on the PC around the mid to late 90's. 1.) Isometric RPG where you start off as a pig farmer. I can only remember being in the first town, which was huge, while everyone just treated you like poo poo for being a pig farmer. 2.) I only had the demo of this game, but I remember the beginning well. You wake up in a futuristic prison cell and somehow get into a fist fight with a robot. The game was mostly about punching and kicking robots into walls. The fighting was done with the number pad and was painfully slow. 3.) I barely remember this one, but I might get lucky. I think it was isometric. All I know for sure was that you lived in a very fascist town, it had a 1984 vibe to everything. I remember lots of things were spherical, like some one peeing on the street peed a stream of yellow balls. Bullets were little balls too. I think everyone was grey or maybe yellow and I think you were blue. A different color than everyone else anyway. Sorry this one is so vague. Edit: \/\/\/ Yeah, that's definitely the first two. Thanks! The Big Lebowski fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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First game is Dink Smallwood and the second sounds like Bioforge. e: Third game sounds like Little Big Adventure. al-azad fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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Aug 6, 2011 03:10
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Wow, never thought I'd get all three. I've been wondering about those for years, thanks!
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I'm looking for this retro-style 2D platformer I just read about somewhere a few weeks ago—I don't know if it's actually out yet or not. I do recall that it's heavily inspired by the NES Strider—I'm pretty sure you can climb and hang from platforms just like in Strider, and in particular your character's sword slash looks identical to Strider's.
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